I have to disagree. Although Ritek is fully capable of producing reliable and high quality results, time and time again they have also shown that they are equally interested in flooding the market with 'B' 'C' 'D' and lower grade discs.

There has been a continued swing in the industry to move away from supporting Ritek. You will see this in the huge movement of larger brand names away from using Ritek as their OEM. Both Maxell and Memorex have moved away from Ritek, and I believe Samsung has also switched or will be switching as well. Other brands have also been having issues, and I know that Ritek is becoming very concerned with this sudden loss of big customers in the last 6 months. Not only this, but many Ritek dealers, such as myself, have become rather upset at the inconsistancy of quality between shipments of product, and have largly cut back, or removed altogether the Ritek product line.

It should be very interesting to see if Ritek decides to clean up their act, or continue to increase production and sales of crap quality media!

So who is taking over as the best DVD-r or +r disc's then ? Or close to the best ???

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ORIGINAL: Dolphinius_Rex

I have to disagree. Although Ritek is fully capable of producing reliable and high quality results, time and time again they have also shown that they are equally interested in flooding the market with 'B' 'C' 'D' and lower grade discs.

There has been a continued swing in the industry to move away from supporting Ritek. You will see this in the huge movement of larger brand names away from using Ritek as their OEM. Both Maxell and Memorex have moved away from Ritek, and I believe Samsung has also switched or will be switching as well. Other brands have also been having issues, and I know that Ritek is becoming very concerned with this sudden loss of big customers in the last 6 months. Not only this, but many Ritek dealers, such as myself, have become rather upset at the inconsistancy of quality between shipments of product, and have largly cut back, or removed altogether the Ritek product line.

It should be very interesting to see if Ritek decides to clean up their act, or continue to increase production and sales of crap quality media!

DVD-R and DVD+R are pretty equal in quality when it comes down to it. DVD-R probably has more low quality manufacturers though.

As for who makes the best media? Taiyo Yuden and Mitsubishi always seem to be the best.... however, Mitsubishi is doing more sales of technology now, and no so much media manufacturing. It's almost as if as soon as Mitsubishi finishes making a new technology, they pawn production of it onto CMC, and move on to the next "latest and greatest" technology. Taiyo Yuden on the other hand still does a lot of their own research and development, but also continue manufacturing of their media, and outsource VERY little.

The results aren't great.., but they aren't too bad either...., probably changing the strategy better results are obtained, and also it's true that with another type of -R media better results will be able to be obtained.., but I bought this media for 0.76 €/unit 4X branded, and I can burn them at 8X with an acceptable quality.., so I don't think that they are a fake.

My previous Rimax G04 burned much better at 4X, but they did a horrible burn at 8X.